----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Marshall" <bmarsh@bmarsh.com> To: "SLE" <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 9:10 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] X problems
On Saturday 05 August 2006 14:58, Russ Stewart wrote:
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I know the guy who writes the drivers for Nvidia so I have some faith that they will work... and they do.
Next installment !!!!
Mandriva 2007 does not have an /etc/X11 directory in its live mode, so I resized the /home partition and loaded MDV2007 in what was left over. Now MDV2007 uses 768x576 , an odd size, the display section of the xorg.conf file was pasted into the suse xorg.conf, and it still the mdv file is attached. so is the suse xorg.conf is also attached is a mess, screen unreadable.
It might end up with buying another card (Nvidia) Its unlike the Suse developers not to be able do something the Mandriva guys can do ! :)
Maybe true... but remember, Madriva live is doing its thing on the fly, and getting the wrong resolution but it's usable. The SuSE install is doing things on the fly for the install and it too is usable. It's when you boot the system on its own that things go bad.
No, I installed MDV2007 and it was OK, thats where the MDV xorg.conf file came from
I was only able to get my monitor (at first) to work with 1280x1024 when it really wants to run at 1600x1200. The 1280x1024 was barely usable and looked awful.... and that's probably what you're getting out of the Mandriva live too... works but it's far from the best.
BTW, please don't respond to both me and the list. I get my mail from the list like everyone else. Thanks.
Sorry blame microyuks mailer
Well I've tried every V refresh rate in 1 Hz steps from 68Hz to 95 Hz after that its out of range for that monitor. Xorg.log shows the correct driver is being used, but looking down the log at the resolution list, ther is nothing like the resolution of 768x576 that Mandriva are using. I dont know my way around the xorg config enough so far, one for a guru. LSMOD shows a atiagp module loaded , should it be ???.. Thoughts ?? Russ